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quickly! ! {please} help me find something to read

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TheoriginalLEM · 14/04/2016 22:09

on my kindle.

two nights without finding anything -hellllllpppp

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wheresthel1ght · 14/04/2016 22:11

Depends what you like, but if you enjoy murder mystery/thrillers then check out Peter James and his Roy Grace novels, anything by Kathy Riechs, Spoonface Steinburgh is good if you can cope with the emotions

Tessticklesyourfancy · 14/04/2016 22:11

Free or to buy? What type of thing do you enjoy reading?

NeedACleverNN · 14/04/2016 22:11

What sort of stories do you like?

Latest one I've read and enjoyed is miss peregrines home for peculiar children by ransom Biggs

Tessticklesyourfancy · 14/04/2016 22:13

I really enjoy reading Robert Goddard

EverySongbirdSays · 14/04/2016 22:14

OK - I was obsessed and still am in many ways with The Mitfords : Letters Between Six Sisters ed. Charlotte Mosley

Other things The Invention Of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Notes From An Exhibition Patrick Gale
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

It depends : what are you in to?

Pollyputhtekettleon · 14/04/2016 22:14

I just started the latest girl with the dragon tattoo book. Good do far.

FoxInABox · 14/04/2016 22:14

Kate Mortons books are brilliant. Also the shock of the fall, Dorothy koomson books, where'd you go bernadette?, are all great books.

EverySongbirdSays · 14/04/2016 22:15

Spoonface Steinberg is a novel now? It started off as a radio play.

sepa · 14/04/2016 22:15

I second Roy Grace series from Peter James. I also love Martina Cole books

smalllondon · 14/04/2016 22:15

Obviously I don't know you taste but...

Some books I've read recently and loved:
How to be both - Ali Smith
A brief history of 7 killings - Marlon James
The Establishment - Owen Jones

Some classics you might not have read:
Wind up bird chronicle - Haruki Marukami
Master & Margherita - Mikhail Bulgakov

Lifecanonlygetbetter · 14/04/2016 22:16

Anything by Patrick Gayle. Who is your favourite author/genre?

EverySongbirdSays · 14/04/2016 22:17

Oh Where'd You Go Bernadette gave me the absolute pip as they say. Finished it as it was short but only as it was short.

TheoriginalLEM · 14/04/2016 22:17

i like detective stories but nothing too graphic or ipsetting. ghost stories but no horror. light sci fi. anything really. no mis lit

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LittleMissUpset · 14/04/2016 22:17

Depends what you like? I just finished little shop of happily ever after by Jenny colgan, nice easy read.

LittleMissUpset · 14/04/2016 22:18

Cross post! Ignore my suggestion then Grin

FlibbertigibbetArmadillo · 14/04/2016 22:19

If you like light Sci fi I suggest flowers for Algernon.

NoLongerALurker · 14/04/2016 22:19

I'm reading The Trade by Simon Andrew Stubbs at the minute. I'd recommend it so far.

pollylovespie · 14/04/2016 22:19

I've just finished Before I go to sleep - loved it.

Lazyafternoon · 14/04/2016 22:19

Oh I'd go for Jane Austen (yet again). Persuasion, Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility. I could read over and over.
Or the Harry Potter set. Again.
Or My family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell (as in The Durrells on ITV). Love it.

MrsPinotGrigio · 14/04/2016 22:19

If you like history/sci fi try the Chronicles of St Mary's series, there's about 5 books & they got me through a hospital stay last year. Quite light reading but addictive too

Rainbunny · 14/04/2016 22:20

Just finished reading the Century Trilogy by Ken Follet. He isn't my favorite author but it was an entertaining trilogy of books.

EverySongbirdSays · 14/04/2016 22:20

Ghost story with no horror.

We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Girl In The Photograph author escapes me Kate something

NeedACleverNN · 14/04/2016 22:21

Check out miss peregrine

www.waterstones.com/book/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children/ransom-riggs/9781594746031

It's got loads of interesting photos in it too and it's going to be a movie later on this year

Lifecanonlygetbetter · 14/04/2016 22:21

Dorothy L. Sayers if you like period detectives.M.R James for ghost stories. Sci-if is the only think I have never managed to get into, and I read a lot ( a book a day when on holiday).

colander1 · 14/04/2016 22:21

Just finished Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey. With tears rolling down my cheeks - it was soooooo good. And I'm a tough old cow - takes a lot to make me cry!

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